[fpc-pascal] FPC roadmap?

[Serguei TARASSOV]

Jonas,

Thanks for info.
Personally, I'm able to use fixes_3_0 branch, the problem is that 
solution is not easy to support even for small developers group and some 
build/tests servers environment (mixed with D7 and dozens third-party 
libs).
So we stay on Lazarus 1.4 packaged with FPC 2.6.4 actually.

Amusing situation: both main compilers used in production are not more 
supported :)

It might be a good idea to release 1.4 package with trunc_3_0 but I'm 
afraid that updates will be frequent.


On 01/06/2015 12:00, fpc-pascal-request at lists.freepascal.org wrote:
> Date: Sun, 31 May 2015 23:17:41 +0200
> From: Jonas Maebe<jonas.maebe at elis.ugent.be>
> To: FPC-Pascal users discussions<fpc-pascal at lists.freepascal.org>
> Subject: Re: [fpc-pascal] FPC roadmap?
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> On 31/05/15 21:40, Serguei TARASSOV wrote:
>> >Thank for answers.
>> >Are some dates planned for 3.0 release ?
> No, not yet.
>
>> >Actually, we have some risks : 2.6 is frozen and not supported but 3.0
>> >is not released yet.
>> >I took a little about some non-blocking issues at forum and tracker. The
>> >advise was "use 3.0 from trunk".
>> >Then I asked "Do you use 3.0 in production?" and the answer was "No" in
>> >general.
> I would recommend to use 3.0 from fixes_3_0 (or fixes_3_0_ios if you
> need AArch64 support). I don't think much will still change to that
> branch before the release.
>
>> >In other hand, do any statistics about community exist?
>> >I mean, estimated number of users, contributors, their activity...
>> >I understand that projects like PHP are more diffused and give more data
>> >about their activity but FPC/Lazarus has sufficient mature codebase and
>> >history for this kind of information.
> For contributors, commits etc based on the svn activity, you can have a
> look at openhub.net:
> * the entire FPC source tree:https://www.openhub.net/p/freepascalall
> * only the FPC compiler:https://www.openhub.net/p/freepascal
> * lazarus:https://www.openhub.net/p/lazarus
>
> I'm not aware of any statistics about people using FPC and/or Lazarus.
>
>
> Jonas